Creating Windows 8 Style Toast Notifications with jQuery and CSS3 - Win8 Notify

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Creating Windows 8 Style Toast Notifications with jQuery and CSS3 - Win8 Notify

A super simple script that allows you to create a Windows 8-style responsive & flat notification interface using jQuery and CSS3. Great for displaying toast messages on your website. Highly styleable and themable via CSS.

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How to use it:

1. Load the latest jQuery javascript library in your html page.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

2. Load the required win8-notify.css in the page. Modify the themes and styles in this CSS file as you like.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css">

3. Create a link with javascript onClick event to open a notification box.

<button class="black" onclick="showNotification('black');">Black </button>

4. The jQuery script.

<script type="text/javascript">
var def="black";
function showNotification(color){
$( "#notification" ).removeClass(def);
$( "#notification" ).addClass(color);
def=color;
$( "#notification" ).fadeIn( "slow" );
//alert('hi');
$(".win8-notif-button").click(function(){
//alert('hi');
$(".notification").fadeOut("slow");
});
}
</script>

5. Create custom messages for the notification.

<div id="notification" class="notification black">
<div class="dark-back"> </div>
<div class="win8-notif-body">
<div class="mid">
Your Content goes here.
<button class="win8-notif-button">OK</button>
<button class="win8-notif-button">CANCEL</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Change log:

2015-02-16

  • Added Hiding property to notification

This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by ashriths. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.